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U.S. GMO Food Labeling Drive Has Biotech Industry Biting Back
Business  (tags: abuse, business, corporate, corruption, cover-up, environment, ethics, farming, lies, marketing, money, Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, GMOs, genetic engineering, abuse, business, corporate, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, ethics, farming, lies, marketing )

Kathy
- 20 days ago - cornucopia.org
New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, have struck a nerve with biotech crop developers who say they are rushing to roll out a broad strategy to combat consumer
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How Monsanto Went From Selling Aspirin to Controlling Our Food Supply
Business  (tags: Monsanto, GMOs, Frankenfood, Big Ag, Roundup Ready, corporate, corruption, ethics, dishonesty, consumers, americans )

Roseann
- 32 days ago - truth-out.org
Monsanto controls our food, poisons our land, and influences all three branches of government.
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Will Whole Foods Start a Trend By Requiring Labels on GMO Food?
Business  (tags: Whole Foods, GMOs, labeling, Just Label It, Frankenfood, health risks, business, ethics, marketing )

Roseann
- 74 days ago - slate.com
The upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market is getting ahead of the game, becoming the first major retailer in the United States to require that all genetically modified foods in their U.S. and Canadian stores be labeled by 2018.
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US Farmers May Stop Planting GMOs After Poor Yields.
Business  (tags: Farmers, GMOs, poor yields, frankenfood, biotech )

Roseann
- 99 days ago - responsibletechnology.org
Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts. Farmers in the USA pay about an extra $100 per acre for GM seed, an
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Stop the Pipeline of New GE Seeds! ACTION
Business  (tags: food, family, health, USDA, prevention, agriculture, big ag, synthetics, organic, hunger, science, ge seeds, chemicals, gmos )

Nancy
- 131 days ago - action.panna.org
A suite of "next generation" GE seeds is heading for USDA approval, with the first application sitting on Agriculture Secretary Vilsack's desk right now.
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Biotech Giants Are Bankrolling a GMO Free-for-All
Business  (tags: GMOs, biotech giants, Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow Agrosciences, BASF, Bayer, Pioneer (Dupont) )

Ellyn
- 290 days ago - motherjones.com
The so-called "Big Six" agrichemical companies--Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow Agrosciences, BASF, Bayer, and Pioneer (DuPont)--are sitting pretty. Together, they control nearly 70 percent of the global pesticide market, and essentially the entire market for genet
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Planet for Sale/Dritte Welt Im Ausverkauf/PlantèTe à Vendre- Documentary Documents Food Crisis & the Global Land Grab
Business  (tags: Planet-for-Sale, Dritte-Welt-im-Ausverkauf, Plantète-à-Vendre, food crisis, global land grab, farmland, food security, poor nations, food riots, Africa, Latin America, multinationals, banks, investment funds, GMOs, new agricultural world order )

LucyKalei
- 763 days ago - videos.arte.tv
Saudi, French, US invstmnt funds & multinationals buying up best farmland in poor countries dependent on food imports to feed people & govts allowing it. GMOs grown for internat markets, vast profit- not local folk. FAO head indicts agrarian neo-colonial
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Why Monsanto Always Wins
Business  (tags: Monsanto, Freakenfood, Frankenfood, GMOs, GE Alfalfa, corporate, dishonesty, corruption, government, USDA )

Roseann
- 821 days ago - truth-out.org
Regulators still openly rely on data and research provided by the biotech industry when approving GE technology.
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Follow the Payola and Conflicts of Interest: Big Win for Biotech: USDA Deregulates Monsanto Alfalfa
Business  (tags: Monsanto, GMOs, biotech, organic, unethical, corruption, ethics, government, corporate, corruption, politics )

Roseann
- 835 days ago - truth-out.org
Monsanto was one of the top contributors to Lucas's campaign committee in 2010. A political action committee and individuals associated with Monsanto donated $11,000 to his campaign last year, and Lucas has received $1,247,844 from the agribusiness indust
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Atamanenko Calls Unconfined Release of GE Seeds a Disaster for Organic Farming
Business  (tags: business, environment, farming, GMOs, organic )

Julie
- 843 days ago - boundarysentinel.com
New Democrat Agriculture Critic, Alex Atamanenko , is calling on Prime Minister Harper to urge the U.S. government to immediately reverse yesterday's decision to authorize the unrestricted cultivation of Monsanto's hotly contested GE alfalfa in the US.
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Monsanto's Latest Farmwashing Ad Campaign Debuts
Business  (tags: Monsanto, Farmwashing, GMOs, propaganda, Monsanto Ad Campaign )

Roseann
- 849 days ago - grist.org
We have two agricultural systems in this country, both claiming to be good for farmers and both claiming to be sustainable, says Marion Nestle. But only one has millions of dollars' worth of ads selling its version of reality.
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Winning the Battle on GMOs in the United States
Business  (tags: GMO, GMOs, food industry, Center for Food Safety, genetically modified crops, pharmaceuticals, safety, engineered, GM )

Care For
- 893 days ago - sott.net
Since 2002, U.S. activists - lead by CFS - have successfully stopped the commercialization of GM wheat, rice, alfalfa, sugar beets, bent grass and "biopharm" crops (crops that have been engineered to produce pharmaceutical drugs) and GM food animals,
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Why Monsanto Is Paying Farmers to Spray Its Rivals' Herbicides
Business  (tags: Monsanto, herbicides, GMOs, corruption, consumers )

Roseann
- 946 days ago - grist.org
Monsanto has been forced into the unenviable position of having to pay farmers to spray the herbicides of rival companies
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Japan Allows Genetically Modified Papayas
Business  (tags: GMOs, fruits, farming, farmers, papayas, government, farming, consumers, humans )

Elena
- 1031 days ago - gmo-compass.org
As of summer, genetically modified (GM) papayas will be for sale in Japan. The fruit must be labeled accordingly. The Japanese government has allowed the import of the papayas from the USA, where a virus-resistant variety has been cultivated since 1999
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Monsanto Withdraws Argentine Soybean Import Complaint (Update1)
Business  (tags: Monsanto, complaint, GMOs, soybean, settlement, ban )

Elena
- 1056 days ago - businessweek.com
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Monsanto Co., the world's largest seed company, said it withdrew a patent complaint seeking to bar imports of Argentine soybean meal into Europe after settling with Cefetra Ltd. and Alfred C. Toepfer International
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